Celia Bonnet PhD

Celia Bonnet obtained her PhD thesis on the complexation of lanthanide cations by biological ligands in 2006 from the University of Grenoble and under the supervision of Dr Pascale Delangle et Pascal Fries. She then moved to Trinity College in Dublin in the group of Pr. Thorri Gunnlaugsson where she worked on the synthesis and characterization of luminescent probes. She obtained a CNRS position in 2010 in the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire in Orléans and was promoted to CNRS research director in 2022. She is interested in the design and characterization of MRI contrast agents sensitive to different stimuli such as the presence of zinc or copper, as well as quantification and specificity problems associated with this detection.